[KwartzLab] Hexadecimal

[Jeff Schmidt]

I was there last year, and was torn between feeling nostalgic about the old exhibits I remembered from 15 years ago, and disappointed that so little had changed...

- Jeff

On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:02 AM, Karl Williams <karlw at thinkbotics.com> wrote:

> I remember that talking machine at the science center! You could control the speed and pitch of each syllable. I was there a few years ago and was happy to see that they still had some of those old exhibits.
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> On 12/4/2012 12:00 AM, Michael Dunn wrote:
>>   At 11:35 PM -0500 12/3/12, Karl Williams wrote:
>>> My favorite hex number is C0FFEE.
>> 
>> Do you remember the "COFFEE" talking machine at the Science Centre? :-)
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>>> Sometime when I'm bored I'll pick any base, other than ten, and do mind calculations. Base-12 (Duodecimal) is fun.
>> 
>> 6x9=42 (base 13)
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>> Why does one of my calcs have "Pental"!??!!!??? (base 5)
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>> 
>>>> Doc's offhand comment about IBM and hexadecimal notation piqued my curiosity.
>> 
>> Why does IBM use "slashed" 0 for O?
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>> md
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